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The basis of the law was the Ten Commandments. These commandments are principles for life. `They are not rules and regulations; they do not legislate for each event and for every circumstance. For a certain section of the Jews that was not enough. They desired not great principles but a rule to cover every conceivable situation. From the Ten Commandments they proceeded to develop and elaborate these rules.

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Photo provided by Flickr(i) The Christian ethic is positive. It does not consist in not doing things but in doing them. Jesus gave us the Golden Rule which bids us do to others as we would have them do to us. That rule exists in many writers of many creeds in its negative form. Hillel, one of the great Jewish Rabbis, was asked by a man to teach him the whole law while he stood on one leg. He answered, "What is hateful to thee, do not to another. That is the whole law and all else is explanation." Philo, the great Jew of Alexandria, said, "What you hate to suffer, do not do to anyone else." Isocrates, the Greek orator, said. "What things make you angry when you suffer them at the hands of others, do not you do to other people." The Stoics had as one of their basic rules, "What you do not wish to be done to yourself, do not you do to any other." When Confucius was asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" he answered, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

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Photo provided by FlickrThe honours which the scribes and Rabbis expected to receive were quite extraordinary. They had rules of precedence all carefully drawn up. In the college the most learned Rabbi took precedence; at a banquet, the oldest. It is on record that two Rabbis came in, after walking on the street, grieved and bewildered because more than one person had greeted them with, "May your peace be great," without adding, "My masters!" They claimed to rank even above parents. They said, "Let your esteem for your friend border on your esteem for your teacher, and let your respect for your teacher border on your reverence for God." "Respect for a teacher should exceed respect for a father, for both father and son owe respect to a teacher." "If a man's father and teacher have lost anything, the teacher's loss has the precedence, for a man's father only brought him into this world; his teacher, who taught him wisdom, brought him into the life of the world to come.... If a man's father and teacher are carrying burdens, he must first help his teacher, and afterwards his father. If his father and teacher are in captivity, he must first ransom his teacher, and afterwards his father." Such claims are almost incredible; it was not good for a man to make them; it was still less good for him to have them conceded. But it was claims like that the scribes and Rabbis made.

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After doing that we can compare both Aristotle's and Epictetus' points of views and distinguish between them with examples from "Into Thin Air"(ITA), written by Jon Krakauer....

Everybody says they want to be free

While there is little doubt that Epictetus views god as all powerful and all good, I will argue that his texts also indicate that Epictetus views god as a pantheistic god possessing none of the defining characteristics of a personal god....

Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere

The first connection between free will and moral responsibility can be seen by Aristotle and Epictetus through their views of the voluntary and involuntary....

Zig Ziglar "I love America

So if you ask whether virtue can be taught, the answer is that therules for a virtuous life can be delivered; but the application of therules is the difficulty, as teachers of religion and morality know well,if they are fit to teach.

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Introduction to LukeAn Historian's Introduction (Lk.1:1-4)A Son is Promised (Lk.1:5-25)God's Message to Mary (Lk.1:26-38)The Paradox of Blessedness (Lk.1:39-45)A Wondrous Hymn (Lk.1:46-56)His Name is John (Lk.1:57-66)A Father's Joy (Lk.1:67-80)Journey to Bethlehem (Lk.2:1-7)Shepherds and Angels (Lk.2:8-20)The Ancient Ceremonies are Observed (Lk.2:21-24)A Dream Realized (Lk.2:25-35)A Lovely Old Age (Lk.2:36-40)The Dawning Realization (Lk.2:41-52)The Courier of the King (Lk.3:1-6)John's Summons to Repentance (Lk.3:7-18)The Arrest of John (Lk.3:19-20)The Hour Strikes for Jesus (Lk.3:21-22)The Lineage of Jesus (Lk.3:23-38)The Battle with Temptation (Lk.4:1-13)The Galilaean Springtime (Lk.4:14-15)Without Honour in his Own Country (Lk.4:16-30)The Spirit of an Unclean Devil (Lk.4:31-37)A Miracle in a Cottage (Lk.4:38-39)The Insistent Crowds (Lk.4:40-44)The Conditions of a Miracle (Lk.5:1-11)Touching the Untouchable (Lk.5:12-15)The Opposition Intensifies (Lk.5:16-17)Forgiven and Healed (Lk.5:18-26)The Guest of an Outcast (Lk.5:27-32)The Happy Company (Lk.5:33-35)The New Idea (Lk.5:36-39)The Increasing Opposition (Lk.6:1-5)The Defiance of Jesus (Lk.6:6-11)Jesus Chooses his Men (Lk.6:12-19)The End of the World's Values (Lk.6:20-26)The Golden Rule (Lk.6:27-38)Rules for Life and Living (Lk.6:39-46)The Only Sure Foundation (Lk.6:47-49)A Soldier's Faith (Lk.7:1-10)The Compassion of Christ (Lk.7:11-17)The Final Proof (Lk.7:18-29)The Perversity of Men (Lk.7:30-35)A Sinner's Love (Lk.7:36-50)On the Road (Lk.8:1-3)The Sower and the Seed (Lk.8:4-15)Laws for Life (Lk.8:16-18)True Kinship (Lk.8:19-21)Calm Amidst the Storm (Lk.8:22-25)The Defeat of the Demons (Lk.8:26-39)An Only Child is Healed (Lk.8:40-42,49-56)Not Lost in the Crowd (Lk.8:43-48)Emissaries of the King (Lk.9:1-9)Food for the Hungry (Lk.9:10-17)The Great Discovery (Lk.9:18-22)The Conditions of Service (Lk.9:23-27)The Mountain Top of Glory (Lk.9:28-36)Coming Down from the Mount (Lk.9:37-45)True Greatness (Lk.9:46-48)Two Lessons in Tolerance (Lk.9:49-56)The Honesty of Jesus (Lk.9:57-62)Labourers for the Harvest (Lk.10:1-16)A Man's True Glory (Lk.10:17-20)The Unsurpassable Claim (Lk.10:21-24)Who is My Neighbour? (Lk.10:25-37)The Clash of Temperaments (Lk.10:38-42)Teach us to Pray (Lk.11:1-4)Ask and You will Receive (Lk.11:5-13)A Malicious Slander (Lk.11:14-23)The Peril of the Empty Soul (Lk.1 1:24-28)The Responsibility of Privilege (Lk.11:29-32)The Darkened Heart (Lk.11:3 3-36)The Worship of Details and the Neglect of the Things that Matter (Lk.11:37-44)The Sins of the Legalists (Lk.11:45-54)The Creed of Courage and of Trust (Lk.12:1-12)The Place of Material Possessions in Life (Lk.12:13-34)Be Prepared (Lk.12:35-48)The Coming of the Sword (Lk.12:49-53)While Yet there is Time (Lk.12:54-59)Suffering and Sin (Lk.13:1-5)The Gospel of the Other Chance and the Threat of the Last Chance (Lk.13:6-9)Mercy More than Law (Lk.13:10-17)The Empire of Christ (Lk.1 3:18-19)The Leaven of the Kingdom (Lk.13:20-21)The Risk of being Shut Out (Lk.13:22-30)Courage and Tenderness (Lk.13:31-35)Under the Scrutiny of Hostile Men (Lk.14:1-6)The Necessity of Humility (Lk.14:7-11)Disinterested Charity (Lk.14:12-14)The King's Banquet and the King's Guests (Lk.14:15-24)On Counting the Cost (Lk.14:25-33)The Insipid Salt (Lk.14:34-35)The Shepherd's Joy (Lk.15:1-7)The Coin a Woman Lost and Found (Lk.15:8-10)The Story of the Loving Father (Lk.15:11-32)A Bad Man's Good Example (Lk.16:1-13)The Law which does not Change (Lk.16:14-18)The Punishment of the Man who Never Noticed (Lk.16:19-31)Laws of the Christian Life (Lk.17:1-10)The Rarity of Gratitude (Lk.17:11-19)The Signs of his Coming (Lk.17:20-37)Unwearied in Prayer (Lk.1 8:1-8)The Sin of Pride (Lk.18:9-14)The Master and the Children (Lk.18:15-17)The Man who would not Pay the Price (Lk.18:18-30)The Waiting Cross (Lk.18:31-34)The Man who would not be Silenced (Lk.18:35-43)The Guest of the Man whom All Men Despised (Lk.19:1-10)The King's Trust in his Servants (Lk.19:11-27)The Entry of the King (Lk.19:28-40)The Pity and the Anger of Jesus (Lk.19:41-48)By What Authority? (Lk.20:1-8)A Parable which was a Condemnation (Lk.20:9-18)Caesar and God (Lk.20:19-26)The Sadducees' Question (Lk.20:27-40)The Warnings of Jesus (Lk.20:41-44)The Love of Honour among Men (Lk.20:45-47)The Precious Gift (Lk.21:1-4)Tidings of Trouble (Lk.21:5-24)Watch (Lk.21:25-37)And Satan entered into Judas (Lk.22:1-6)The Last Meal Together (Lk.22:7-23)Strife among the Disciples of Christ (Lk.22:24-30)Peter's Tragedy (Lk.22:31-38,54-62)Thy Will be Done (Lk.22:39-46)The Traitor's Kiss (Lk.22:47-53)Mocking and Scourging and Trial (Lk.22:63-71)Trial Before Pilate and Silence Before Herod (Lk.23:1-12)The Jews' Blackmail of Pilate (Lk.23:13-25)The Road to Calvary (Lk.23:26-31)Here they Crucified him (Lk.23:32-38)The Promise of Paradise (Lk.23:39-43)The Long Day Closes (Lk.23:44-49)The Man who gave Jesus a Tomb (Lk.23:50-56)The Wrong Place to Look (Lk.24:1-12)The Sunset Road that Turned to Dawn (Lk.24:13-35)In the Upper Room (Lk.24:36-49)The Happy Ending (Lk.24:50-53)